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>>reporter: ducati is another company betting big on india. it recently opened its fourth showroom in the country, and it expects sales to more than double this year thanks to the rising demand for performance bikes. >>the indian market is very important for ducati; it... presents a huge option... either the size ofthe population and the fact that a large portion of the population has ridden a bike sometime in their life presents a fantastic opportunity for us; and we believe we are strategically a very important market in the future. >>reporter: one thorn in the side of the manufacturers is the high custom duties levied on imported motorcycles. with taxes of 80 percent and more slapped on these bikes, customers are often turned off by the high sticker price. >>it sometimes feels like you're being cheated. you're using a bike two times or three times the price somebody in the west pays. >>reporter: one workaround is to assemble the bikes in india, this slashes prices as custom duties for semi-built motorcycles are lower than those for ready ma
>>reporter: ducati is another company betting big on india. it recently opened its fourth showroom in the country, and it expects sales to more than double this year thanks to the rising demand for performance bikes. >>the indian market is very important for ducati; it... presents a huge option... either the size ofthe population and the fact that a large portion of the population has ridden a bike sometime in their life presents a fantastic opportunity for us; and we believe we are...
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the least expensive of all sold in india. hatch backs which are shorter than ordinary cars are especially popular in india's growing market of inexpensive automobiles. in the center of new delhi in this parking lot, you can see large number of hatchback cars parked here. hatchbacks are popular because they are easy to park. there are not enough parking lots. a car parks too close on this street of the business district. >> parking problem, you have to have a hatchback vehicle. >> reporter: automakers are trying to increase their sales by targeting the indian market. planning to add 25 dealerships in indian this year. >> there are various competitors. i think we will be able to meet this challenge very well. >> translator: toyota and the entire auto industry the placing more hopes on india. toyota is finally able to offer small cars for this market in earnest. >> reporter: the competition between low-priced cared in india's giant market is heating up even further. are nhk world, new delhi. >>> and that wraps up our bulletin. 4
the least expensive of all sold in india. hatch backs which are shorter than ordinary cars are especially popular in india's growing market of inexpensive automobiles. in the center of new delhi in this parking lot, you can see large number of hatchback cars parked here. hatchbacks are popular because they are easy to park. there are not enough parking lots. a car parks too close on this street of the business district. >> parking problem, you have to have a hatchback vehicle. >>...
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congresswoman michele bachmann was on the night before and said that president obama's trip to india was going to cost $2 billion. what ever it was. and he had let it go. he did a wonderful thing, anderson cooper. he'd be constructed the whole -- deconstructed the whole story, showed how it began with an unnamed indian official. as if an unnamed indian official in maharajas and would have any idea what the president's trip was going to cost and involved 32 naval ships. this thing was crazy. so he did constructed the whole story. i thought it was so good, i got a transcript and i wrote a column on it, giving him a shout out for doing it. the next day i was giving a talk to the honor society. i get my bagel, my coffee, i sit down at the table lets 7:00 a.m. -- at 7:00 a.m. the first thing a young man said at the table is, did you know obama's trip was going to cost a billion dollars? and i said, did not see anderson cooper? i tell this whole story in the book. and michele bachmann just announced for the presidency. that is utterly irresponsible. >> let me talk about the role of new med
congresswoman michele bachmann was on the night before and said that president obama's trip to india was going to cost $2 billion. what ever it was. and he had let it go. he did a wonderful thing, anderson cooper. he'd be constructed the whole -- deconstructed the whole story, showed how it began with an unnamed indian official. as if an unnamed indian official in maharajas and would have any idea what the president's trip was going to cost and involved 32 naval ships. this thing was crazy. so...
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the pakistanis have been worried about india for years. that drives their policy in afghanistan and even in pakistan. i think if we could ratchet up efforts to convene a regional conference, peace conference, including china, russia, india and then the countries in the ren region, including iran, we have a chance of changing the scene. the goal would be a healthy relationship with a country that holds 100 nuclear weapons and is a democratic ally of ours. >> the aid that the president has said he's going to suspend at this point is about a third of the aid they get. hundreds of millions of dollars. the question, i guess, we have, having been told for years it was important to give them this money because it gave us sway and kept other players from stepping in and filling that void. what happens now? couldn't china step in and say you know what, we're happy to give you that cash and sort of move us out? >> they could, although the technology we're supplying, china doesn't have some of it, but they certainly could supply enough of it, maybe l
the pakistanis have been worried about india for years. that drives their policy in afghanistan and even in pakistan. i think if we could ratchet up efforts to convene a regional conference, peace conference, including china, russia, india and then the countries in the ren region, including iran, we have a chance of changing the scene. the goal would be a healthy relationship with a country that holds 100 nuclear weapons and is a democratic ally of ours. >> the aid that the president has...
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and the number one most stressed out country in the world was india. kyra, 82% of women said they just did not have any time to relax. united kingdom at number 11 and the united states number 12. in this survey they made a distinction between emerging countries and developing countries. what they found out with something like india, for example, as well as the other developing countries, is that women had to juggle work, right? their careers, as well as busy home lives. but they also had to conform to very traditional expectations and traditional standards. so they found in developing countries women had the social infrastructure to allow them to juggle the social support to do but in developing countries not the case. the least stressed out country in the world is, can you guess, kyra? >> no. tell me where! bora bora? tahiti? >> yeah. i wish we could go there. it's actually sweden. are you moving there any time soon? >> i may be doing that now. you and i will be packing our bags. it's a beautiful place, that's for sure. >> it sure is. >> zain, who nev
and the number one most stressed out country in the world was india. kyra, 82% of women said they just did not have any time to relax. united kingdom at number 11 and the united states number 12. in this survey they made a distinction between emerging countries and developing countries. what they found out with something like india, for example, as well as the other developing countries, is that women had to juggle work, right? their careers, as well as busy home lives. but they also had to...